X payments incentivised misinformation in wake of Bondi shooting, expert says

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12-18/expert-says-x-incentivising-misinformation-bondi-shooting/106152144

14 Comments

  1. Stannis_Loyalist on

    Same with Youtube.

    Hate is the driving force for engagement. I keep getting red-pilled anti work videos in my recommended randomly. I would click “not interested” but they keep pooping up.

  2. Before too much longer and we won’t be able to trust any media source at all, ever.

    Even if they mean well, they still get fed bullshit information.

  3. BlindWillieJohnson on

    This was intuitively obvious to everyone using the platform. By removing all penalties for misinformation and all moderation, they’ve created an environment in which people are paid for keeping users angry by and dishonest means necessary.

    There are plenty of website with similar problems, but X has perfected the cocktail of a perpetual motion disinformation machine.

  4. This is the modus operandi of every single social media platform (including Reddit). The fact is that it’s much easier to spread misinformation than facts because misinformation only requires saying something sensational, whereas facts require users to be informed and research what they read.

    It’s nigh impossible to inform people of the truth when they take everything said on social media to be “true until proven false” when in reality, people should be “skeptical until proven true”

  5. quitaskingmetomakean on

    There are innumerable ways that governments regulate commerce. Paid speech is not free speech. Payment for speech is commerce so why don’t we regulate this behavior out of existence? Maybe make anyone commenting on American politics and receiving payment and not American register as a foreign agent? 

  6. Wow, a platform owned by a Nazi, and made into a safe place for Nazis and pedophiles, is pushing disinformation?

    Who would have guessed?

  7. Economy_Sir3777 on

    Experts argue that X’s (Twitter) payment structure fueled fake news following the Bondi Junction shooting because:

  8. NotAProfessiona1 on

    If it exists, is open to the public, and accepts cash— it’ll be used to fuck someone else.

  9. man i missed when twitter (fuck calling it x) actually used to be a fun platform to use but instead it’s just been a cesspool of fucking hate